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Equip Aura, go to 23-5, blast Corrupted Paladin 6

General Query to the Players: Several of you have taken Actions to study the backgrounds of some of your characters. Since characters are not necessarily bound to your faction (think three kingdoms style people switching back and forth) i would suggest posting general descriptions and background stories about important figures in here so you dont have to spend actions on that. Mind, this only refers to the NPC Characters you have been settled with, not your own chars. Should you for any reason wish for me to refrain from that simply pm me and i will of course not post them.

I'm totally ok with everything being known Because people implicitly respect each other's spoilers.

This is a nice switch of a player by the way!

Thanks to its Corrupted Origin, it was not vulnerable against the Replacator. And so, the Acharya opened a Gate to the Subdomain of Thought, throwing the Replacator there, far from Mortal hands.

It was displeased by the aberrance in It's domain. It realized it was a great danger given the law that was whirling and whisking through the gates, and through the very fabric of domain itself.

It had to fight.

Action 1: FULL ON COMBAT AGAINST WHATEVER THAT IS.

That was, until It felt a familiar tone in the expanses...but on a more synchronous scale to themself. Sensing the other Elemental God (I've no idea if I can sense Control, but as I had dealings with life before...), It decides that given this corrupted source, it was more beneficial to rest and regenerate and seep out the corruption.

Action 1: Rest. Regenerate power.

Action 2: Slap Arkai with 3 Power.

Action 3: If possible, just rest near that Shard corrupted thingy, giving any aid I can to anything that'll affect it non-corruptedly, or moreso just stay near it to stop it from corrupting these poor dreamers, or help out without spending any power. Perhaps even I can use it in the meantime. Probably also ponder on how to upgrade to a domain.

I have feelings by the wording of the OP that elemental gods are like early-game weaker but more flexible over the course of the game.

"When they are working, Gremlins are not the most careful people. I will instruct them to play nice, but I cannot guarantee that there will be no accidents. I cannot guarantee that there will be no harm done... Aside from that, your terms sound fun. I will have my people round up the runaway humans and move north to camp with you for at least the winter. The toys and tools they will bring from the main camp should get them to work! I promise that my people make great allies... So long as you keep us entertained!

We have a deal, Friend?"

"If all goes well, perhaps it may be tradition to share benefits in the season of cold." The distant realization of Gremlins being not the most careful was new--Iyiania ascribed their reluctance to some manner of connection with their deity, but she didn't know there was one in the first place. "Round up as many humans and catfolk as possible, please. So many are missing." You feel feelings that she believes they may not survive the winter alone.

...Also feelings on if gremlins enjoy mental challenges, puzzles, and theatrics of the mind. Iyiania wonders if they knew of philosophy.

Iyania forgot that the biggest issue was communication--so she committed to act on the issue, finding a person who was particularly very well-rounded, needn't be a fighter but one vested not just in one's personal interests but those beyond themselves; she found people with that particular thought that lacked supplies or the means to do so unless other resources were present, but she had to pick one. Thus she decided upon what was already developed; someone of humility and forethought to their actions, and a mind for consideration and compassion.

First Action: Make 2E divine servant
Second Action: 1E of iron in our area!
Third Action: (Free Action) Whisper words of the smiths amongst the people, to forge tools to mine and to forge tools for the hunt! (Blacksmithing?)
Iyiania was always present, at least, she was busy guiding with her presence like a shadow by a cloud over the lands--after careful deliberation, she picked a person who not only had a reliable character background, but who also had experience in acting upon their perspective. A presenter of information, someone who knew the importance of sides and perspectives and positions, but who foremost presented information much like the thinkers of the old world to those whose lives were focused on supporting others--that all may share in knowledge.

To them, Iyiania greeted with a gesture of respect. After a while, she repeated what she had mentioned months prior, clarifying that she was the influence to their mental clarity and an influence to what they had felt upon arriving in the area; while this start was familiar--out of the many on the ships, she only sensed nearly a third of all present in the current vicinity, and she needed help from the people. She could only do so much by herself, as a tutelary and transient deity. Thus, she confided her trust, and her insight to the person, and asked them to forward the search for the missing people--and told them of all things that she had received by herself in communication with others. Basically, she told them about showing her presence in more tangible forms, of the iron veins and deposits that she had shrouded until it was needed in the current time, and of inspiration of metalworking, that iron be used to forge better tools and weapons for food and other basic needs. She added connotations that the need for worship was a priority if the others shipwrecked were to be found before the worst of weather would befall them, and thanked them for their time--they would be organizing the people into tasks and duties to be fulfilled, but also in forming advisory and leading councils for the people to have themselves heard. She told them of her symbol, either drawn, gestured by hand or non-verbally, or in concise prayer. She mentioned of the rocks nearby, and of how one may preserve food using structures of such manners--most importantly, she mentioned to have no fear of the winter, for she would protect the land they were in from the cold for the whole of the season; their priority was to stockpile food, however, and prepare to set out in the winter to keep looking for more of their kin...or at least, in the present, find a way to signal them from afar, but at the moment, the best way was to place reverence reasonably in the minds of the people by the smallest of gestures and beliefs, rather than grand rituals.

She mentioned that it took time to converse and speak with people--and even those who were attuned as this, it took time to do, but that she was always open for communication, questions, and clarifications if need be. She mentioned that the coming seasons were going to be difficult, but bearable. And she awaited any response on their side.

"Hello fellow wanderer...You haven't happened to lose some of your Pink Ape-Sheep things recently, have you?"

Iyiania was surprised, because she did not know there were spirits in the area--or was this something else entirely? Her turn segment She did not notice it, and assumed the voice was talking about...the...humans? Of all the known other fauna to herself, she did not think of any resembling that.

"Some of my flock have gone missing, yes. Who are you and what are you saying?"

((I'll presume I told my servant about this too, but in conciseness))

Dirugulatl agrees to the oath.

The lightroot, being a lightroot, is unable to fully understand the oath. It sends good vibes towards Tala's hallucinations, however.

Tala wobbles good vibes back to the lightroot. In any case, she is pleased. She instructs the lightroot champion to stay with the human--to learn from them, and to be taught as their apprentice that they may master these early stages of life and...people-hood, and create their own memories, life, and other potentials. To theirs was trust, as there would be many things to do in the coming generation.

"A warning. Many great people acknowledged by others acted beyond personal goals--personal needs and otherwise. The drive for passion and curiosity delves into the value placed upon things, and even those with mortal lives have done much more beyond their time--but they always needed each other. Teach each other as you teach others, and may the systems you make focus on what you can fulfill, for all needs may not be recreated more than they are, therein lies the spirit of anxiety. You have much power realized, outside of time and age--know that it may be used to harm just as much as heal and help, but always at a pace. You will always have to work with others and yourselves.

"Also, do master at least one language."

((Sorry for the edits Mice, I'm in Finals/Masterals season so there were bits I forgot to edit in the 1st/2nd action, I'll place it here.))
This post is not to be edited as per rules in the OOC about changing form posts.
Third Action: Take the form of an Idol.

After speaking of justice, Tala spoke to her champions.
"A ruler who kills those devoted to them is not a ruler who inspires devotion. Immortality is a precarious gift, but just as much as thought is, only elongated in time in a changing world--it is a tool for those who can wield it, but it requires a flexible mind. In the present, you are worthy--in the future, you build upon yourselves to ensure every present time stands for that. If you want others to follow you, you have to become part of their world; that is what I attempt to do, even if I follow somewhat different ideals than what many are accustomed to towards the spirits. I teach freedom and control, I teach insight and impulse, I teach that people are capable of all these and more, and of the worst they can even imagine, because it is by people that their futures are forged--many spirits will not do what people could have, even if they did not, and guidance and interaction are needed. I choose my champions by the characteristics they build--not the expectations they want me to see, as I see more than that; these can all change over time, but regardless, remember you are always free to choose your path in regards to serving me--you can choose otherwise if you think it is best, but see more than that when you think so, because a lot of your thoughts are much like what I say. Thought is guided by what you know, and you make decisions by what you know, and what you know is by what you sense.

"In the future, I ask you to seek people of certain character--you can train them as your apprentices that you are not alone. You can foster people as children even if you will outlive them. Many people chase immortality--try to ensure that they fulfill their lives towards a better future that is not their present. We are all of the primordial essence, and some are the branches of the roots of others. All I ask, is respect, acknowledgement, and remembrance, as a lot of power comes from thought."

And before they were made champions, Tala asked an oath be taken--that they use the powers of unaging, and of immortality, to the best of their reasoning, that they stay true to their word and communicate if any changes would be made in honesty, and that they hide no untruths for they are as real as any spirit or being, but seen in the mind before in the physical place; that they acknowledge they are champions of herself and are connected as an extension of her will. That they serve choice, insight, and life, just like they do her, and that they may choose to return her gifts whenever--but must communicate before doing so.
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Tala mentioned her goal to them, to be able to understand death the spirit and physical better for the people, and they should not be afraid to ask questions, or blind themselves to sides and parties, or sharply held beliefs which cast only wrong or right--as champions, they were trusted above the rest, but this came with humility and was not to be taken lightly.

She then asked them that between now and the next generations, she would return in [50 or so] years--she required a core to anchor herself into as a form to take, preferably of the best metals or materials they could find or trade for (and the tact to be said as needed to procure such materials). If they would learn or knew any better form, it was also applicable. With this, unless anything else was to be attended to, she slept.